Dan Alger, DMin, has been in church planting ministry for over twenty years, currently serving as the canon for church planting for the Anglican Church in North America. He is also an adjunct professor, speaker, trainer, and coach. Dan is the Dean of the Cathedral at Church of the Redeemer in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Jokha Alharthi is the author of two collections of short fiction, a children's book, and three novels in Arabic. Fluent in English, she completed a PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry in Edinburgh, and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. She has been shortlisted for the Sahikh Zayed Award for Young Writers.

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Farah Ali grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, and currently lives in London. Her work has been anthologized in the 2020 Pushcart Prize and received special mention in the 2018 Pushcart anthology. Her debut story collection People Want to Live includes stories previously published in VQR, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, and others.

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S. K. Ali is the award-winning author of Saints and Misfits, a finalist for the American Library Association's 2018 William C.Morris award, and the winner of the APALA Honor Award and Middle EastBook Honor Award.

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Saleem Ali holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware and is honorary professor at the University of Queensland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Geographic Society in the United Kingdom.

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Yasmine S. Ali, MD, is a cardiologist and former president of the Vanderbilt History of Medicine Society. She graduated from Vanderbilt University's College of Arts and Science with a BA in molecular biology and history and graduated with multiple honors from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

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Tauseef Ali, MD, is a consultant gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease specialist. He is an assistant clinical professor at University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. He is recognized internationally for his clinical work in the field of Crohn's and colitis.

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Shamash Alidina has been teaching mindfulness since 1998 and training mindfulness instructors since 2013. He holds a post-graduate certificate in teaching mindfulness-based approaches from Bangor University's Centre for Mindfulness, and is cofounder of the world's first Museum of Happiness, headquartered in London.

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Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) was an Italian poet whose masterpiece The Divine Comedy has exerted a profound influence on Western thought.

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Jane Alison is the author of The Love-Artist, The Sisters Antipodes, and the craft book Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, among other titles. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Meg Alivien is an indie author of paranormal fantasy and romance, born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She currently resides outside of the city with her husband and four cats.

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Firas Alkhateeb holds a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies with a specialization in Islamic intellectual history from the University of Chicago. He has been teaching at Darul Qasim in Chicago since 2014. Firas founded and writes the website Lost Islamic History.

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